• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.279-292
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• 2017

This study was aimed at ultrafiltration (UF) as a pretreatment before reverse osmosis (RO) within the scheme of hybrid reverse osmosis-multistage flush (RO-MSF) desalination. Seawater at elevated temperature (after MSF heat-exchangers) was used as a feed in this process. The pretreatment system was represented as a set of functionally-linked technological segments such as: UF filtration, backwashing, chemical- enhanced backwashing, cleaning, waste disposal, etc. The process represents the sequences of operating cycles. The cycle, in turn, consists of the following unit operations: filtration, backwashing and chemical-enhanced backwashing (CEB). Quantitative assessment was based on the following indicators: normalized permeability, transmembrane pressure, specific energy and water consumption, specific waste generation. UF pre-treatment is accompanied by the following waste streams: $W1=1.19{\times}10$ power of $-2m^3$ (disposed NaOCl with 0.0044% wt.)/$m^3$ (filtrate); $W2=5.95{\times}10$ power of $-3m^3$ (disposed $H_2SO_4$ with 0.052% wt.)/$m^3$(filtrate); $W3=7.26{\times}10$ power of $-2m^3$ (disposed sea water)/$m^3$ (filtrate). Specific energy consumption is $1.11{\times}10$ power of $-1kWh/m^3$ (filtrate). The indicators evaluated over the cycles with conventional (non-chemical) backwashing were compared with the cycles accompanied by CEB. A positive impact of CEB on performance indicators was demonstrated namely: normalized UF resistance remains unchanged within the regime accompanied by CEB, whereas the lack of CEB results in 30% of its growth. Those quantitative indicators can be incorporated into the target function for solving different optimization problems. They can be used in the software for optimisation of operating regimes or in the synthesis of optimal flow- diagram. The cycle characteristics, process parameters and water quality data are attached.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.138-148
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to identify the cleaning efficiency of fouled multi-bore hollow fiber membranes after purification of contaminated water. The PSf (polysulfone) based hollow fiber membrane manufactured by Pure & B Tech Co., Ltd. Was used in this study. The antifouling characteristics during the water treatment were studied using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a model compound and the chemical resistance was evaluated after long-term impregnation in sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) solution and Citric acid to understand the long term stability of the membranes. Water permeability and mechanical strength of the membranes after prolonged chemical exposure was measured to observe the change in mechanical stability and long term performance of the membrane. moreover, the recovery efficiency was also evaluated after chemical enhanced backwashing of a membrane contaminated with bovine serum albumin. The PSf hollow fiber membrane exhibited excellent chemical resistance, and it was confirmed that the efficiency of sodium hypochlorite was high as a result of chemical enhanced backwashing.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.389-395
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• 2017

In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of membrane fouling caused by water temperature in the Membrane bioreactor(MBR) process and try to derive the membrane fouling control by chemical enhanced backwashing(CEB). The extracellular polymeric substances(EPS) concentration was analyzed according to the water temperature in the MBR, and the membrane fouling characteristics were investigated according to the conditions, with sludge & without sludge, through a lab-scale reactor. As shown in the existing literature the fouling resistance rate was increased within sludge with the water temperature was lowered. However, in the lab-scale test using the synthetic wastewater, the fouling resistance increased with the water temperature. This is because that the protein of the EPS was more easily adsorbed on the membrane surface due to the increase of entropy due to the structural rearrangement of the protein inside the protein as the water temperature increases. In order to control membrane fouling, we tried to derive the cleaning characteristics of CEB by using sodium hypochlorite(NaOCl). We selected the condition with the chemicals and the retention time, and the higher the water temperature and the chemical concentration are the higher the efficiencies. It is considered that the increasing temperature accelerated the chemical reaction such as protein peptide binding and hydrolysis, so that the attached proteinaceous structure was dissolved and the frequency of the reaction collision with the protein with the chemical agent becomes higher. These results suggest that the MBRs operation focus on the fouling control of cake layer on membrane surface in low temperatures. On the other hand, the higher the water temperature is the more the operation strategies of fouling control by soluble EPS adsorption are needed.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.877-882
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• 2013

The application of ultrafiltration (UF) and microfiltration (MF) membranes has been increased for drinking water purification. The advantages of UF/MF membrane process compared to conventional treatment processes are stable operation under varying feed water quality, smaller construction area, and automatic operation. Most membrane treatment plants are designed with polymeric membranes. Recently, some studies suggested that the process of treating surface water with ceramic membranes is competitive to the application of polymeric membranes. Higher water flux, less frequent cleaning, and much longer lifetime are the advantages of ceramic membrane comparing to polymeric membrane. Therefore, this research focused on the application of ceramic MF membrane pilot plant at the slow sand filtration plant. The ceramic membrane pilot plant has three trains that used raw water and sand filtered water as a feed water, respectively. For optimizing the pilot plant process, the coagulation with PACl coagulant was used as a pretreatment of ceramic membrane process. In addition, CEB (Chemical Enhanced Backwash) process using $H_2SO_4$ and NaOCl was used for 1.5 days, respectively. The experimental results showed that applying the optimum coagulant dose before membrane filtration showed enhancing membrane fluxes for both raw water and sand filtered water. Also, when using raw water as a feed of membrane, minimum fouling rate was 2.173 kPa/cycle with 25 mg/L of PACl and when using sand filtered water, the minimum fouling rate was 0.301 kPa/cycle with 5 mg/L of PACl.

• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.59-68
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• 2013

In the present study, sea water reverse osmosis desalination system was composed with an ultra-filtration membrane as a pre-treatment. Sea water was induced into the pre-treatment composed with an auto-screen filter and an ultra-filtration membrane. It was proved that the permeate of the pre-treatment was adequate for reverse osmosis desalination system by measuring the $SDI_{15}$ and the turbidity. Feed salinities was changed by mixing the brine and the permeate. Inlet salinities effected the performances of sea water reverse osmosis desalination system in a large amount such as the salt rejection, the recovery ratio, the pressure, the product salinity. Energy consumptions per the ton of the product were almost linearly increased with the inlet salinities.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.327-327
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• 2021

하수재이용에서 전처리 막여과 공정은 완벽한 고액분리로 인해 후단 역삼투막 손상을 줄일 수 있는 공정으로 각광을 받고 있다. 일반적으로 막여과 공정은 여과->물리세정->충진->여과 와 같은 제막사에서 제공하는 운전 사이클에 맞춰 적용하고 있으며 유지세정 역시 1회/일 또는 1회/주 단위로 정해진 범위에서 수행되고 있다. 이러한 운전 방식은 시시각각 변화하는 막 유입수질에 적절하게 대응하지 못해 장기적으로 막오염 발생에 따른 생산수량 감소는 물론 막오염 제거를 위한 화학세정 주기가 짧아져 전체적인 생산수량이 감소하는 원인이 되고 있다. Raffine(2012)에 따르면 가역적 막오염의 경우 Flux 증가에 큰 영향이 없으나 비가역적 막오염은 Flux 증가에 따라 급격히 증가한다고 보고하고 있으며 이는 제한된 분리막 면적당 처리수 생산량을 증가시키기 위해 비가역적 막오염의 발생량을 줄이는 것이 필요하며 이를 위해 주기적인 강화역세(Chemical Enhanced Backwashing, CEB)가 도입되고 효율적인 유지세정 방법에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 당사에서는 일산에 있는 I 수질복원센터내에 25 m³/일 규모의 막여과 하수재이용 파일롯 플랜트를 설치하고 막여과 하수재이용 공정의 운영 효율을 높이기 위하여 W사에서 개발한 IntelliFluxControl(IFCr) 소프트웨어를 이용하여 하수재이용 막여과 성능을 확인 하였다. IFCr은 실시간으로 변화하는 수질에 따른 막오염 정도에 따라 역세 강도 및 빈도와 CEB 적용 정도를 변화시켜 분리막 운전의 효율을 높일 수 있는 운영 소프트웨어이다. I 수질복원센터의 하수 방류수를 막여과 유입수로 적용하여 40 LMH를 기준으로 IFCr을 적용하지 않은 경우 23.7일 운전 가능하였으나 IFCr을 적용한 경우 50일 연속 운전이 가능하였다. 또한 역세척수를 운전 기간 동안 약 50 m³을 사용한 반면 IFCr을 적용한 경우 이에 절반 수준인 24.1 m³ 만 사용하여 회수율이 91%에서 95%로 증가한 것을 확인 할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 기존의 제막사에서 제시하는 막 공정 운영방법을 탈피하여 분리막이 갖고 있는 성능을 최대한 끌어 올릴 수 있는 연구 결과라고 판단되며 향후 스케일 업 연구를 통해 실제 플랜트에 적용 가능성이 확인 될 경우 시설의 설치 막모듈 개수와 유지관리비를 동시에 절감할 수 있는 기술이 될 수 있을 것이다